maniacal inclinations for worldly distinctions-and you fix all your plans intellectually to consummate the sickly ends of such mad ambitions. But, presently, you find that there is a "power" behind and within and above, shaping your destiny! Shall we be permitted to denominate this "Providence"? Yes, if by this term you mean the divine code of sanitary laws implanted in the individual constitution.

The constitution of man's physical and mental existence, and the eternal health laws, upon which his most indestructible nature is founded, are themes and problems now and thus presented.

It will be favorable to elucidation to give in this place a plain outline of man's material and spiritual structure. Omitting all possible technicalities and unnecessary particulars, and coming with the satisfying sweep of generalization to the analysis, I present the following as

THE HUMAN CONSTITUTION.

I. Spirit. Man's Spirit is the inmost fountain of causation and self-centred consciousness. It is compounded of ideas and principles-pure reason, God in the flesh, intuition-the "light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world."

II. Soul. Man's Soul is compounded of the elemental forces which correlate each other, are interchangeable, under the titles of motion, life, sensation, instinct, intelligence; are derived from foods, drinks, respirable air, and the so-called imponderables, all which after death enters into the formation and constitution of the spiritual body.

III. Body. Man's Body is an epitome of the fluids and solids, the simple elements and the compound substances, which exist outside of man in the physical constitution of the globe, making man the flower of Nature's system of organic development.

In the foregoing classification, it is obvious that the meaning embodied in the term "soul" is different

from that which is customary to modern popular thought. This difference, however, is but a question of language or adopted title; for, if the reader prefers the term "soul," as expressive to his mind of what is inmost in man, he but transposes the words, leaving the "thought" intended precisely as above given; because it is impossible not to recognize in man, first, a material body-second, vital forces-third, self-consciousness.

The intermediate magazine of vital forces in man— in contradistinction to his outer body, and to his selfconscious spirituality and volition inmost contains various ethers and essences, which operate upon laws analogous to electricity, positively and negatively; and yet it is demonstrable that they are neither terrestrial electricity, nor any correlative chemical or magnetic force, notwithstanding the strong "family likeness manifested both in their countenances and general conduct in the organization.

The Spirit is physically present and manifested in the nerves of affection, intellectual sensibility, and in the self-conscious volition of the higher or wisdom faculties. Its great white, visible throne is the wondrous cerebrum and the grand congressional chamber. entitled the "corpus callosum." Being highest in the temple of consciousness and government-exalted above every other principality or power in man's body--the

Spirit-principles and energies impregnate and saturate with interior life every particle, every organ, every fibre, every force, every ether, and every essence within or about the individual organization.

Vital forces control the heart, lungs, stomach, blood, the organs of reproduction; also they preside over and govern the processes of assimilation, growth, and elimination; and the cerebellum is their distinctive seat of government, and the medulla oblongata is their war office and general executive instrumentality.

The soul-forces acting through the cerebellum, and by means of the vital nerve-centres of the spinal cord, can and do incessantly perform all the hard labor in the physical structure. The phenomena developed in weakness of mind, dementia, loss of memory, and intellectual unconsciousness-superinduced by epilepsy or any other immediate cause--are actually owing to the withdrawal of the true quantity of blood from the front and superior parts of the brain; and this is caused by a contraction in the minute feeding blood-vessels; and this is caused by an excitation of the nerve-centres at the base of the brain, and in the corpus callosum; and this is caused by some external or interior disturbance -not in the Spirit, remember—but in some centre or terminal part of those nerves which are filled with sensibility and motive-energy by those ethers and es

sences and vitalic forces, which, taken altogether, constitute what I have defined under the title of Soul.

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Herein we discover the sources of all possible physical pain, the seat of all imaginable diseases, the fountain of all inherited evils and propensities, and the very 'root and branch" of every and all known forms of insanity. The vital forces, composed of ethers and essences-which are the constituents of the "spiritual body" that is to be-are the source of all mental and material derangements; and the fluids and solids— which are the constituents of the "physical body" that now, is-are the passive recipients of these same mental and material perturbations; and thus, upon the recognized principle that life within and without is a connected chain of countless sympathetic links, the superior parts of the brain and its "divine guest" simultaneously realize the prevailing special or constitutional disturbance.

"We are not ourselves when nature, being oppressed,
Commands the mind to suffer with the body.”

The master-poet of the mother country uttered many words of inspiration true to the Infinite Heart. Did he not recognize our Harmonial Philosophy of insanity in the foregoing? And into the mouth of King Lear